CTP Content Standards Manual
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CTP Content Standards Manual If you have any questions, please contact ERB Support at (866) 683-2335 or (646) 503-2699 or send an e-mail to [email protected]. Copyright 2014 Educational Records Bureau DEAR ERB MEMBER SCHOOL Welcome to the CTP Content Standards Manual. If you are reading this, you are most likely one of the many ERB member schools that use the CTP, ERB’s Comprehensive Testing Program, and are interested in learning more about our standards and this assessment. ERB, a non-profit educational institution founded in 1927, was built on quality achievement assessments and high standards. ERB’s tests provide rigorous, level-appropriate assessments of student progress in meeting these essential academic standards. And now, we’re taking our commitment even further, making all of our assessments available online for instant, actionable results. CTP is no exception and is now available in the traditional paper-pencil version (CTP 4) and an online version (CTP Online). Whether you are administering the CTP online, or using our CTP4 paper and pencil version, you will find that this guidebook will be a valuable and useful resource. It is designed to help you, and your faculty, understand both the standards that are the foundation of the CTP assessment, and the types of items that students address when taking the CTP. It is also a useful tool to have on hand when conferencing with parents as to their child’s results. This Content Standards Manual (CSM) has two sections. The first section outlines the standards by level and provides references to related sample test items. The second section holds sample items for each subtest and level, so you can see how the item is formatted and appears to the student. In combination, the CSM allows you to see what the student is being asked, and how it may be asked, by giving you item samples associated with that standard across all levels. We hope that you will find this to be a very useful and valuable tool. It will certainly assist you and others as you analyze the data offered through our many CTP reports and reflect on your curriculum in the year ahead! WITH WARM REGARDS The ERB Staff COPYRIGHT © 2014 | ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. NO PART OF THIS BOOK MAY BE REPRODUCED OR REDISTRIBUTED 2 | CTP CONTENT STANDARDS MANUAL WITHOUT PERMISSION. CTP OPERATIONS OFFICE · (866) 683-2335 or (646) 503-2699 · [email protected] 470 PARK AVENUE SOUTH, SECOND FLOOR SOUTH TOWER, NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10016 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION SUPPORT & CONTACTS WHAT IS CTP? ........................................................ 4 ERB offers on-going assistance to its CTP users throughout the HOW DO I USE THE CTP CONTENT STANDARDS entire testing process! MANUAL? .............................................................. 4 WHAT ARE THE CTP COMPONENT TESTS?............. 5 The CTP Portal Help and Resources Page The CTP Portal is your one-stop-shop for all things CTP! Video tutorials, manuals, and other charts and guides can be found SCOPE AND SEQUENCE here that will answer a variety of testing questions. VERBAL TESTS ........................................................ 6 MATHEMATICS TESTS ............................................. 7 CTP Operations For assistance with using the CTP Portal please call CTP Operations at (866)-683-2335 or (646) 503-2699 CONTENT CATEGORIES or email [email protected]. LEVEL 1 .................................................................. 8 ERB Academic Professionals Verbal Subtests .......................................................... 8 For assistance with reports, scheduling, or suggestions for Mathematics Subtests .................................................. 9 distribution of reports, please contact the ERB Academic LEVEL 2 .................................................................. 10 Professional in your region by visiting www.erblearn.org/schoolsupport. Verbal Subtests .......................................................... 1 0 Mathematics Subtests .................................................. 12 LEVEL 3 .................................................................. 13 Presentations, Workshops, and Conferences ERB offers presentations to inform schools about ERB’s Verbal Subtests .......................................................... 13 Mathematics Subtest ................................................... 15 products and services. ERB also offers workshops in person or online to help teachers and administrators analyze and LEVEL 4 .................................................................. 17 interpret test results. Presenters and workshop leaders are ERB Verbal Subtests .......................................................... 17 staff members and specially trained consultants. The content Mathematics Subtests .................................................. 19 and length of presentations and workshops are tailored to the LEVEL 5 .................................................................. 21 needs of the particular group or audience. ERB also provides Verbal Subtests .......................................................... 21 mini-workshops for special groups, such as parents and boards Mathematics Subtests .................................................. 2 3 of education. Additionally, every year in the late fall ERB hosts LEVEL 6 .................................................................. 25 an informative and exciting member conference that our schools find very worthwhile. For more information on Verbal Subtests .......................................................... 2 5 workshops, please call ERB at (800)-989-3721 or visit Mathematics Subtests .................................................. 2 7 www.erblearn.org/schoolsupport to contact the ERB LEVEL 7 .................................................................. 29 Academic Professional in your region. Verbal Subtests .......................................................... 29 Mathematics Subtests .................................................. 31 LEVEL 8 .................................................................. 33 Verbal Subtests .......................................................... 33 Mathematics Subtests .................................................. 35 LEVEL 9 .................................................................. 38 Verbal Subtests .......................................................... 38 Mathematics Subtests .................................................. 40 LEVEL 10 ................................................................ 43 Verbal Subtests .......................................................... 43 Mathematics Subtests .................................................. 45 SAMPLE QUESTIONS LEVELS 1-2 ............................................................. 47 LEVEL 3 .................................................................. 54 LEVELS 4-6 ............................................................. 63 LEVELS 7-10 ........................................................... 76 3 | CTP CONTENT STANDARDS MANUAL INTRODUCTION WHAT IS CTP? What types of questions are on the CTP? CTP tests whether administered online, or paper /pencil, are composed The Comprehensive Testing Program (CTP) is a rigorous of multiple choice questions. There is an optional constructed- assessment of individual student and group achievement of response (open ended) section on the CTP 4, requiring essential standards and learning domains in English language students to write short answers. In addition, CTP Online offers arts and mathematics. All CTP subject subtests were developed schools the ability to test students in Science for Levels 3 and by Educational Testing Services (ETS) and ERB to align with up. The Reasoning sections (Levels 3 and up) are Verbal the National Council of Teachers of English, International Reasoning and Quantitative Reasoning. The Achievement Reading Association and the National Council of Teachers of sections complement this vital information through a series of Mathematics Principles and Standards. In addition, in review English Language Arts Achievement Subtests and Mathematics of the Common Core Standards, CTP has strong alignment, Subtests. Comparisons between Reasoning results and having been a rigorous and well developed assessment based Achievement results are unique to the CTP and very valuable on these standards from its inception well before the Common data to consider. Core. The CTP provides useful information about student performance in grades 1-11 in listening, reading, vocabulary, HOW DO I USE THE CTP writing, mathematics, and science*. In addition, CTP assesses CONTENT STANDARDS MANUAL? verbal and quantitative reasoning skills and abilities in Levels With reports in hand, or to answer questions that you may have 3–11. The combined measures can be used to compare more on our standards, we suggest that you find the test level or the content-specific, curriculum-based indicators of performance standard you wish to explore and then review the associated (scores on the achievement tests) to the more conceptual items that may help you understand how the student was asked knowledge base that helps to gauge potential and support to show their understanding of the concepts. school achievement (scores on the reasoning tests). This comparison can prove highly useful, especially for students whose reasoning and achievement scores exhibit marked Scope and Sequence The Scope and Sequence chart discrepancies. In addition, the CTP offers